The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... mind it is difficult to form an estimate : many have excelled Milton in their first essays , who never rose to works like Paradise Lost . At fifteen , a date which he uses till he is sixteen , he translated or versified two Psalms , 114 ...
... mind it is difficult to form an estimate : many have excelled Milton in their first essays , who never rose to works like Paradise Lost . At fifteen , a date which he uses till he is sixteen , he translated or versified two Psalms , 114 ...
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... mind ; for he declared , that whoever became a clergyman must subscribe slave , and take an oath withal , which , unless he took with a conscience that could not retch , he must straight perjure himself . He thought it better to prefer ...
... mind ; for he declared , that whoever became a clergyman must subscribe slave , and take an oath withal , which , unless he took with a conscience that could not retch , he must straight perjure himself . He thought it better to prefer ...
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... mind . Whether we provide for action or conversation , whether we wish to be useful or pleasing , the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind ...
... mind . Whether we provide for action or conversation , whether we wish to be useful or pleasing , the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind ...
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... mind to invest him with military splendour : ' He is much mistaken , ' he says , ' if there was not about this time ... minds of the people . 6 He made some Remarks on the Articles of Peace between Ormond and the Irish Rebels . ' While ...
... mind to invest him with military splendour : ' He is much mistaken , ' he says , ' if there was not about this time ... minds of the people . 6 He made some Remarks on the Articles of Peace between Ormond and the Irish Rebels . ' While ...
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... mind was too eager to be diverted , and too strong to be subdued . About this time his first wife died in childbed , having left him three daughters . As he probably did not much love her , he did not long continue the appearance of ...
... mind was too eager to be diverted , and too strong to be subdued . About this time his first wife died in childbed , having left him three daughters . As he probably did not much love her , he did not long continue the appearance of ...
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